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record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed

herself in Christlike garments; but she is

unchanged. Every principle of the papacy that

existed in past ages exists today. The

doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still

held. Let none deceive themselves. The

papacy that Protestants are now so ready to

honor is the same that ruled the world in the

days of the Reformation, when men of God

stood up, at the peril of their lives, to expose

her iniquity. She possesses the same pride

and arrogant assumption that lorded it over

kings and princes, and claimed the

prerogatives of God. Her spirit is no less cruel

and despotic now than when she crushed out

human liberty and slew the saints of the Most

High.

The papacy is just what prophecy declared

that she would be, the apostasy of the latter